Training Log Archive: Spike

WP middle day 2. I thought this was more fun than the first day...though it was a bit rougher and less pleasant. Both running and map reading were working better than the first day.

On the way to 12 I was comfortably ahead of the people I wanted to beat (Peter, Jenny and Anna) when I turned an ankle and that was pretty much the end of things. I "lost" a good 4.5 minutes over the last 10-12 minutes of the course because I was either not moving or moving slowly.

I'm guessing the ankle will be ok in a week or so, but that I'll be forced to race with an Active Ankle for the next few months. Oh well.

Oh yeah, despite being injured, I beat Anna.

5

Warming up.

Day 2, Mid, Red - Splits

WP middle distance M45. I struggled with the running but felt like I was reading the map pretty well. Fun.

5

Some warm up (largely hiking up the steep hill).

WP sprint. Slow running but otherwise good. Anna beat me.

It was interesting to compare splits to Jenny. She did much better than me in the forest and I was relatively closer on the urban-like areas. But it kind of looks like I was relatively better in the forest versus the field as a whole and worse in the urban-like areas. I guess that means that Jenny ran especially well in the forest.

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A little bit of warming up.

Day 1, Mid, Red - Splits

Day 1, Sprint, Red - Splits

Jogging around at Harriman with Jenny. We found a few locations. You could tell that one of us grew up in terrain with some rocks.

2

A little MTB riding...

A little MTBO on the West Campus sprint map. One of the screws on my left shoe came out and when I twisted my foot to snap out of the pedals, the shoe didn't pop out (the cleat just twisted on the one remaining screw). I managed to avoid falling over still clipped in!

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Work commute with conditions that most would consider nice (i.e. no rain or sleet).

Mowed when I got home.

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Considered a short run, but I'm feeling a bit worn mentally. The work week has been hectic - not in a bad way, but I come home feeling worn out.

Work commute.

To work featured 35F, strong headwind, rain and sleet.

Home was cold and dark. I was fairly late getting home since I had to present to the CC.

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Work commute. On the way home I poked around Jayhawk Towers. I figured there might be a chance I'd find the stolen SI unit and marker. I didn't.

The plan for the evening was to mow the yard. The rain kept that from happening. Snow is forecast for tomorrow. I'm skeptical, but it would be pretty cool to have snow in late April.

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C • stolen marker 7